“I think Barry kind of showed the good and the bad,” Marks said in a recent telephone interview. "That's what I'm concerned about.The problem is driving a new round of revisions to both written and graphic forecasts issued by the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, Marks said. "This is going to be a slow storm," she said. Flooded streets turned a 15-minute drive into an ordeal lasting more than two hours. Tanya Gulliver-Garcia was trying to make her way home during the deluge. But the immense amount of rain in three hours would overwhelm any system, said agency director Ghassan Korban.Īs the water from Wednesday morning's storms receded, people worried about what might come next.
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The city's Sewerage and Water Board said the pumping system that drains the streets was at full capacity. "I must have got to work about a quarter to 7," said Donald Smith, who saw his restaurant on Basin Street flood for the third time this year. Some people paddled their way around in kayaks. Floodwaters invaded downtown hotels and businesses and turned streets into rivers, paralyzing rush-hour traffic and stalling cars. New Orleans got an early taste Wednesday of what may be in store. The river has been running high for months. The storm's surge also could prevent water from emptying out of the already-swollen Mississippi River, possibly sending water over levees near New Orleans, forecasters said. New Orleans could receive 10 inches, forecasters aid. The National Hurricane Center said as much as 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain could fall in parts of eastern Louisiana, including Baton Rouge, and the entire region could get as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters). "The entire coast of Louisiana is at play in this storm," he warned. John Bel Edwards declared an emergency and said National Guard troops and high-water vehicles will be positioned all over the state. Plaquemines Parish, at Louisiana's southeastern tip, ordered the mandatory evacuation of as many as 10,000 people. The deluge triggered flash flooding and raised fears about the even heavier rains on the way. On Wednesday, with the gathering storm still out over the Gulf of Mexico, it dumped as much as 8 inches (20 centimeters) on metro New Orleans in just three hours. "There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along the coast of southern and southeastern Louisiana where a storm surge warning has been issued," the NHC said.Ī slow turn toward the west-northwest and then north, towards Tennessee is expected during the next 3 to 5 days, approaching Memphis by Monday. The storm's surge at the mouth of the Mississippi could also mean a river that's been running high for months will rise even higher. "A tornado or two are possible tonight and Friday across southern portions of Louisiana and Mississippi." "Flash flooding and river flooding become increasingly likely some of which may be significant, especially along the east track of the system," the NHC advisory says.īarry is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 10 to 15 inches near and inland of the central Gulf Coast through early next week, with isolated rainfall amounts of 20 inches across parts of eastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi. NHC forecasters say the slow moving storm will bring heavy rainfall along the central Gulf Coast and inland through the lower Mississippi Valley, including West Tennessee, through the weekend and even into early next week. It would be the first hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic season. The storm could become a Category 1 hurricane just before landfall in Louisiana by late Friday or early Saturday, NHC forecasters say.
"Barry is expected to bring storm surge, rainfall, and wind hazards to the central Gulf Coast during the next several days," NHC forecasters said. advisory.īarry was about 95 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River as of 10 a.m., moving west at 5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. Tropical Storm Barry has formed in the north-central Gulf Coast and conditions are favorable for it to become a hurricane on its path through already flooded New Orleans, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee.Ī tropical storm warning and hurricane watch is in effect for much of the Louisiana coast, from the Mouth of the Pearl River to Morgan City, NHC forecasters said in a 10 a.m. View Gallery: Severe weather in New Orleans as tropical storm threatens
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